In everyday life you can find that almost 75% of the information we obtain in our interactions comes from non verbal language. There are many Sciences that study the meaning of those movements:
1. PROXEMICS Study the way people construct and manage “microspace” the distance between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. We get closed to people or get away from them. It gives us the clues to interpret our feeling towards the others Through proxemics we know the existence of the CONFORT ZONE
Intimate
Good friends
Acquaintances
General public
2. KINETICS Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity as related to human Communication.
3. SEMIOTICS It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and symbols function as a communication medium Through semiotics we could differentiate SIGNS
Units of nonverbal communication
Gestures
Movements
Face expression
Any movement that convey information.
from CUE/s
Nonverbal signs used to prompt an event, behaviour or experience
or SIGNAL
Used to inform as to what will happen, a hint or warning.
THE MOST COMMON NONVERBAL SIGNS ARE:
Emblems Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture
Illustrators Gestrures that enhance verbal messages.
Adaptors Help a person adapt release tension, also called “manipulators”. Hands are used vey often ( scratch, touch, smood..)
Regulators Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation . Turn taking, control the conversation Affect displayers Facial expressions showing emotions Micro-expressions But we also use sounds associated to words to convey meaning. Those sounds work on their own, even if we do not understand the words/ sentences those associated sounds will help us to create the context, imagine what the speaker want to say and predict a future response. This is known as PARALANGUAGE.
our interactions comes from non verbal language.
There are many Sciences that study the meaning of those movements:
1. PROXEMICS
Study the way people construct and manage “microspace” the distance
between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. We get closed to people or
get away from them. It gives us the clues to interpret our feeling towards the
others
Through proxemics we know the existence of the CONFORT ZONE
2. KINETICS
Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity as related to human
Communication.
3. SEMIOTICS
It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and
symbols function as a communication medium
Through semiotics we could differentiate SIGNS
from CUE/s
or SIGNAL
THE MOST COMMON NONVERBAL SIGNS ARE:
Emblems
Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture
Illustrators
Gestrures that enhance verbal messages.
Adaptors
Help a person adapt release tension, also called “manipulators”. Hands are
used vey often ( scratch, touch, smood..)
Regulators
Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation .
Turn taking, control the conversation
Affect displayers
Facial expressions showing emotions
Micro-expressions
But we also use sounds associated to words to convey meaning. Those sounds
work on their own, even if we do not understand the words/ sentences those
associated sounds will help us to create the context, imagine what the speaker
want to say and predict a future response. This is known as PARALANGUAGE.
The most common ones are:
Qualifiers
volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness.
Characterizers
sounds, sights, mumbling, groans, whines, yawning, laughing , cryings ( show
character, emotions, and sensations)
Segregates
Fillers in speech, Pauses, silence or sounds: Oh! Ah-ah!, like-a, sh, Uhuh!.